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One of our most respected vegetable growers. --Joy Larkcom
Charles is a passionate and accomplished gardener, who grows vegetables of amazing flavour. --Raymond Blanc
--Raymond Blanc
Charles is a passionate and accomplished gardener, who grows vegetables of amazing flavour. --Raymond Blanc
Charles is a passionate and accomplished gardener, who grows vegetables of amazing flavour. --Raymond Blanc
--Raymond Blanc
Charles is a passionate and accomplished gardener, who grows vegetables of amazing flavour. --Raymond Blanc
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This book explains how to come through winter with plenty of vegetables stored, fresh harvests to make, and also has advice for growing plants to withstand the winter, for eating in spring during the hungry gap season of April, May and early June.
Winter and early spring require a different kind of gardening to the summer months; not a lot grows at this time, but a well planned plot may nonetheless be quite full.
Vegetables need to be sown and planted at specific times so the book's middle section is a monthly sowing, planting and growing calendar. The next part covers monthly harvesting adventures, from garlic in July to spring cabbage and pea shoots in may. through winter, soil is cool and transforms the plot into a large outdoor larder where many vegetables keep healthy and alive, ready for harvesting when needed. many salads can be grown in winter, especially with a little protection, such as from fleece and cloches.
Many examples of frost hardy salad plants and other vegetables are given, with best sowing dates and harvesting methods. The beauty of winter and its produce is captured in photographs from the author's garden.
'High producers that take up little space make fantastic sense. One of our national specialists in doing this successfully is Charles Dowding, the salad-growing expert, who has pioneered the no-dig technique of growing veg in raised beds.' -- Sarah Raven, Daily Telegraph
Winter and early spring require a different kind of gardening to the summer months; not a lot grows at this time, but a well planned plot may nonetheless be quite full.
Vegetables need to be sown and planted at specific times so the book's middle section is a monthly sowing, planting and growing calendar. The next part covers monthly harvesting adventures, from garlic in July to spring cabbage and pea shoots in may. through winter, soil is cool and transforms the plot into a large outdoor larder where many vegetables keep healthy and alive, ready for harvesting when needed. many salads can be grown in winter, especially with a little protection, such as from fleece and cloches.
Many examples of frost hardy salad plants and other vegetables are given, with best sowing dates and harvesting methods. The beauty of winter and its produce is captured in photographs from the author's garden.
'High producers that take up little space make fantastic sense. One of our national specialists in doing this successfully is Charles Dowding, the salad-growing expert, who has pioneered the no-dig technique of growing veg in raised beds.' -- Sarah Raven, Daily Telegraph
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41 of 41 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the book to read if you want to know how to grow winter vegetables. It is a relief to read a gardening book that shows and instructs you on what to do now to get a winter harvest rather than what you should have done months ago. Genius!. The sowing, planting and growing calendar is brilliant. I think this book is perfect for vegetable growers of all levels. Packed with information that the experienced gardener will find very useful and is straightforward, clear and concise for the new vegetable grower just starting out.
I have been growing vegetables for a few years now but have never been clear on how to grow vegetables for the winter. I shall be reading this book constantly over the next few months and with luck we will get some winter vegetables to eat.
I have been growing vegetables for a few years now but have never been clear on how to grow vegetables for the winter. I shall be reading this book constantly over the next few months and with luck we will get some winter vegetables to eat.
31 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I rate Charles Dowling highly, he's an experienced vegetable grower and a brilliant communicator. This is my third book of his and the one I have been waiting for. Every year my allotment skills improve and I build on past experience BUT in winter I have rarely managed more than a small crop of purple sprouting broccoli and a few leeks. Next winter will be different. The book is extremely well laid out with best sowing times very clearly explained. From this I have been able to fill my diary with reminders for sowing and planting. The fantastic photos show what to expect at all stages from seedling to plant to mid-winter. I highly recommend it.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book on the strength of Charles Dowding's other two titles, both of which I regard as invaluable. Mr Dowding's great strength is that he writes from his own practical experience, and gives excellent advice, rather than simply re-hashing previous writings.
This title is probably the most valuable of the three, as it contains a great deal of very helpful advice on growing vegetables at a time when so many plots are bare, or only have a few tattered leeks and cabbages available.
If you are serious about wanting to grow you own vegetables, I would certainly recommend this book!
This title is probably the most valuable of the three, as it contains a great deal of very helpful advice on growing vegetables at a time when so many plots are bare, or only have a few tattered leeks and cabbages available.
If you are serious about wanting to grow you own vegetables, I would certainly recommend this book!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Very good, but flawed
Overall, I've been impressed by this book. Not only does it address a topic, winter growing, that isn't dealt with elsewhere, but the author also includes an impressive amount of... Read more
Published 1 month ago by N. Dodd
Open your mind and eyes to Winter Vegetables
Fabulous book well worth the money and I am sure will become my "veg bible". It is well laid out , easy to read and there are some very good photos which enhance the text.
Published 5 months ago by betii
To all veg growers
Have never grown winter veg before. This book is very helpful and an excelent read. Explains very clearly how to grow in veg boxes, year round frost hardy salads (some of which I... Read more
Published 6 months ago by barbs
Not impressed!
I never thought that I would ever find a book on growing vegetables so disappointing! I was really excited about getting stuck into it when it arrived but it's just the same old,... Read more
Published 7 months ago by M. A. Campbell
nice, but rather the companion books style
very informative book and a nice chapter arrangement, issue for me though is the new format, more like some magazine you pick through than anything else, personal opinion but go... Read more
Published 9 months ago by dcot
Another Charles Dowding hit!
I am very pleased with the clarity of this book. I love gardening but am a comparative newcomer to vegetable growing, always my husband's responsibility but mine now. Read more
Published 9 months ago by M. E. Lea
Plug that Hungry Gap with this book
Having purchased and read Charles Dowding's previous two books, this is perhaps the most important because it literally instructs you how to grow vegetables, salad leaves etc for... Read more
Published 9 months ago by David Marshall
Excellent down to earth advice
Although I have been growing veg for some time, this excellent book gives great advice for those all important times when things are "lean". Read more
Published 10 months ago by K. Fitzsimmons
Winter Veg
I bought this book with the intention of seeing if I can grow veg through the winter. From what I have read so far I think I am on the right track as the book is full of idea's and... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Mr. D. K. Parker
Gardening.
In keeping with the Authors previous two Gardening Books this is a must.
Having been a gardener for 40 years I thought I knew most of the answers..... Read more
Having been a gardener for 40 years I thought I knew most of the answers..... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Mr. Peter J. Potter
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